A relaxing saturday, with robots

Not a lot happened today, I got some new art supplies that I want to try out, and I did some of my art school homework, sorta. To be honest I spent most of the day watching Neon Genesis Evangelion. I just finished torrenting it and so far it's pretty good. I am a big fan of anything giant robot related and this series is supposed to be good so I decided to check it out. I really dig the mech designs, and their is supposed to be a movie being made, but Its not coming out for a long while, maybe around 2009. Well if it is as good as the series is so far, then It might be one of my favorite movies! Looking forward to seeing the transformers movie, despite the negative reviews I have heard. Those are mostly from the hardcore fans, and I am defiantly not a hardcore fan so I just want to go to see the hot robot on robot action. WOO! Aint nothing wrong with that! I would like to have a giant robot, That would be pretty sweet... yeaaahhhhh <3

A bit late is better then never

I didn't post anything yesterday so I had to be sure I would today, or rather, tonight. As far as art goes it's going alright, focusing on stuff from school rather then personal artwork. I need to start working on my old paintings again if I want to use them for my portfolio. I'll try and get some digital art done so I can post it. One thing worth mentioning is my experiences with the models in my figure drawing class. As Ive said before the nude models are generally a strange sort of people but I never really got into detail on that subject. Here is a quick example of one of my more recent encounters with them.
Well to start it off, it was a Thursday afternoon, around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and I had just come back from lunch with my family. I walk into the class room and set up my things and as I do that a rather fat, man walks out of another room completely naked. Now this is a pretty common place sight in the class room so I didn't really flip or anything because I am sorta used to it, although I will admit there were times where I was pretty grossed out, but you just have to power through it and hope for the best. Anyways back on topic, He strikes a pose and we are drawing him, just the same old deal we have done plenty of times before. The first thing that struck me odd was the fact that the man didn't have anything to tell time with, because the models always have some sort of thing they use to know how long they have been posing for, Some bring stop watches, egg timers, and one person even brought in a big clock that you hang on your wall, but this guy had nothing. Oh yeah this guy, his name is Norm, and the best way i could describe his appearance is that he looked kinda like the stapler guy from Office Space. So he is standing there and the teacher asks him how long hes been posing, and he looks at her so he obviously hears her, but he just stares, and for about 5 seconds there is just silence, it was extremely awkward. Finally he responds that he didn't hear her, so she repeats the question. More silence. Its completely obvious that he has no idea how long he has been standing there so he says he has about 5 more minutes to go, which is complete bull, I checked my clock and he was way off, but whatever right? No big deal, just more time for me to draw. Things start getting crazy when he can't figure out how to position his feet to get his stance right. During the poses the teacher will come by and put down tape around where the model is standing to help them remember where they were standing, pretty simple concept right? WRONG! or apparently it was wrong to this guy, because he couldn't figure it out! it took the teacher around 5 mins just to get his feet right, and later we had the same problem! I guess this guy didn't get the memo. ZINNG! (10 super points to those who got the reference) Terrible jokes aside, it was definitely a weird experience. I had to hide my face because I was laughing so hard when he couldn't get his feet right. I could go on, because it definitely gets a lot weirder, but I don't feel like it right now. Any ways I hope to get more art done tomorrow, and maybe Ill be able to post some of it.

Slightly Past 4th of July

I meant to post this on the actual 4th, but seeing how I'm only 29 mins off, I'll excuse myself.
Today was pretty relaxing, I woke up at 12 and had a breakfast burrito, then pretty much relaxed the whole day. I meant to go to a 4th of July party but I was to lazy so I ended up staying at home and drawing the whole time. I have been downloading some tutorials and one in particular by Marco Djurdevic caught my eye. Its a pretty interesting read, and adds a whole philosophical approach to art that is interesting to me. Check it out here.
I didn't finish my drawing today but the tutorial recommends to take a break from your drawing and look at it with fresh eyes. So I'm going to take that recommendation and see how it looks in the morning. I'll still post it here though.



This is an updated version of the car I posted earlier. A friend of mine pointed out some perspective problems to me. Ill be sure to correct them soon. I really hope I get the hang of this digital art stuff. Its really important to me that I do. Also for some reason these pictures are really low quality so I'm probably going to have to host them somewhere else and post them here unless I can figure out whats the deal. Any ways I'm off. Happy belated 4th of July America.

Struggles of an aspiring young artist.

Finally today is over! I worked pretty hard today at school, but I don't feel like I accomplished very much. I am getting a little frustrated with my digital artwork. It seems like no matter how hard I try it just doesn't get any better. Ill keep working on it of course and ill try doing more studies now. I am officially announcing right now that I will do one study per day whether it be digital or traditional. I'll do my best to make it digital so I can post it here, but that is my goal. My traditional skills seem to be slowly getting better, but these classes are pretty daunting. I just have to work through it. Today I plan on finishing the car I posted yesterday. I need more music to listen to, I'm running out.

Something of note

I have offically had ths blog for 1 year! WOOO go me. pretty sad it only has 11 posts though, but that will soon change! I have big plans to do much bloggin this year, ohh yess!

MAJOR UPDATE 2007

Whoa man its been a long time since i posted on this thing! I almost forgot about it! no longer though ill try and post in it much more so all my readers can enjoy my goodness. Horray! Lets get back up to date shall we? It is now summer, and life is pretty good. I dont have a license yet, nor a car, but i shall hopefully get one of those soon. I have been doubling down on my art lately and i have been taking 2 classes at a local art school. Its a lot of hard work but i think its definitely worth while. It has only been a week and I feel I am improving a lot. One thing about art school is, you meet a lot of innnteresting people there, to say the least. I have found that the nude models in my class seem to get stranger every day. I dont know how much more weirdness i can take. This computer has given me much more time to draw, and to slack off, so its both a blessing and a curse. Ive been playing some computer games, mostly Oblivion and Worms Armaggedon and Ive started hanging out with some old friends, so life is pretty decent right now, hopefully that will keep up. not much more to say right now, but ill try to keep this thing updated more often now that i actually can log in. here is a picture of me that i like and a drawing i am working on to make up for lost time. woot! (that last picture i have been working on for a long time. i need to finish it and give it to my friend.)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

this is the first post from my new computer!
thank you jesus! you are the man!
happy birthday.





maybe ill get more work done?




nawwww